Aesthetic and functional efficacy of subcuticular running epidermal closures of the trunk and extremity: A rater-blinded randomized control trial

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1272-1278

  Alam, Murad ^a,b   Posten, William ^a   Martini, Mary C ^a   Wrone, David A ^a   Rademaker, Alfred W ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLACTIN; POLYPROPYLENE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDERMIS; ERYTHEMA; ESTHETICS; EXCISION; HUMAN; LEG; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCAR FORMATION; SHOULDER; SUBCUTICULAR EPIDERMAL CLOSURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; THORAX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; WOUND CLOSURE;

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BACK; FEMALE; GROIN; HUMANS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEVUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SHOULDER; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; SKIN NEOPLASMS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THORAX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 33750052880     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: 0003987X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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